Llantwit Major / Llanilltud Fawr / Llaniltud Fawr

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith

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design element - patterns - scalloped - imbrication

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font at the far end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph in Círculo Románico [www.circuloromanico.com/index.php?menu_id=9&jera_id=1594&page_id=1260] [accessed 27 November 2011]

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view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

Image Source: 1920s? B&W postcard

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)

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view of font and cover in context - east side

Scene Description: the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/544791] [accessed 27 November 2011]

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view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 July 2019)

view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 July 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 01025LLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Illtyd

Church Patron Saints: St. Illtyd [aka Illtud]

Church Location: Church Ln, Llantwit Major CF61 1SG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1446 792439

Country Name: Wales

Location: Vale of Glamorgan

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4265-B4270 crossroads, 7-8 km SW of Cowbridge, 15 km W of Barryin S Glamorgan

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Llandaff

Historical Region: South Glamorgan

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: Newman (1995) gives Kenfig (Maudlam) and St. Donats as cognates

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Círculo Románico [www.circuloromanico.com] and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: located at the site of the oldest college in the UK, Cor Tewdws, founded ca. 395 in honour of emperor Theodosius I; refounded by St. Illtud ca. 508; current church built late-11thC; modified 13th and 15thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Bond (1908) describes the ornamentation pattern as "imbrications or shingle". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period decorated with "four courses of scales". In Orrin (1988): "The font, in the north-west corner of the nave, is of Sutton stone and a circular bowl of the Norman period accoprding to Francis Bond (1908) with overlapping scallops known as 'scale pattren'. It has a moulding at the rim and another at the base of the bowl which rests on a circular stem and a similar base chamfered out and then inclined towards the square base." Described in Newman (1995) as a "circular bowl covered with a bold scale pattern" and dates it to the 12th century. In Rees (2003) as Norman. Noted in Thurlby (2006) as a baptismal font "decorated with imbrication (fish-scale pattern)". Thurlby (ibid.) further notes that the appearence of the imbrication motif on fonts "speaks clearly of the iconographic connection between death and resurrection and their simulation in Baptism". Wooden font cover, round and flat, with metal decoration; date unknown, but probably 19th century. [NB: the base of this font looks suspiciously like a basin itself and it looks very worn; is it an old basin that has been used to prop up the fancier basin? The whole is raised on a quadrangular plinth. The latter shows signs of repairs, with at least one insert replacement in the upper basin side, damage consistant with the removal of old cover staples].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.4081, -3.4878

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 24′ 29.16″ N, 3° 29′ 16.08″ W

UTM: 30U 466073 5695322

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern (19th-century?)

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995

Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988

Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003

Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928